Hi!
> I would like to announce the availability of version 0.1 of UVFS, yet
> another user space filesystem kit. UVFS provide an interface to almost all
> kernel VFS methods in user space with acceptable overhead. It comes with a
> sample in memory filesystem as documentation.
>
> As far as I can determine UVFS is quite robust but I would love to have some
> independent confirmation of that. I would also be delighted if someone more
> familiar with the linux VFS than I, were to give the code a once-over.
>
> The current version of UVFS only supports a single instance of a given
> filesystem type. That will be addressed in the next public release.
>
> UVFS can be found at http://www.sciencething.org/geekthings/index.html .
How do you solve deadlocks on writing?
[Imagine so many dirty buffers are in memory that your
filesystem-in-userspace-daemon was swapped out?]
[Miklos, Cc-ed to you. You have that problem too. And it probably has
same solution like those untrusted filesystems -- back it up by a file.]
Pavel
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